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I just restored one I bought off the marketplace. Mine was in somewhat better shape. But I've ran lots of beams over the years and can tell you the pdl2 is absolutely the best 2 element beam ever made. Ebay has lots of parts for it.

It would be cool to have both the Ringo and that hybrid as a co linear array.

Very nice. Do you know how far the 1st lower section goes down into the insulation and very bottom section of ally tube? There must be some capacitive effects going on in that lower section from the overlap. I'm going to make one from a 5/8 Sirio. I just made the ring from one piece of copper pipe Initially I'll strap it to the elements but might try to solder / braise it later. The ring has around a 1ft diameter. I just resiled I made it the wrong way around so I'll just clamp and later solder the ring tuning wire. I'm going to use some fairly heavy gauge solid core. The insulator will be of teflon as is for the Maco v5000 (Watts version).

Ground strap to the frame will help alot my 102 with 6 inch spring is 1.05:1

Seems to me you're having a good old time! Nothing like new old toys to wrench on...

How many rollers are in a transformer I only see 4 on mine

2BS1358 up in the NW corner, 27.85000 usb

Air up tires 😢😢😢

The first few of 1000 things to do.

800 fucking dollars

That carb cleaner loud AF on video must really fuck with the sound waves

Good deal man.

Hey, It's good to know that you are still kickin'! Been a while since we've heard from you, I believe the last post was about burning anthracite coal in your Morning stove. I'm glad things are working out for you, five acres has plenty of potential, maybe even for a couple wild dipoles! Take care!

Okay so here's a question for you I have very low audio on my Cobra 142 GTL would that be the audio chip causing that problem nor does the meters work properly all I get is constant static it is not normal CB static

Dude!!!!! You make it look so simple,which it is!!!!!! You're awesome!!!! Thank you

Hahaha!

Hello, so how did the super scanner turn out? I have one I'm thinking about going through

Do you like it? I have one.

I own 2 of these. I rebuilt the relay boxes with new coax

Just bought the Wilson 1000 , good info I’ll definitely be using that product in helps to prevent the water from getting in.

I have one that I don't think is in quite as bad shape inside... How do you take off the coil cover? I want to use mine for 10m ham radio. Somebody suggested getting rid of the coil completely or bypassing it for that but not sure what to do.

I hear SSB in the background! 😉

How much does coral cost? Did you need to change your stove?

Very nice I didn't know people still use cold stoves I have one that was putting out for trash years ago and it was well used meaning the grid that you just shook back and forth was nuked I use it for the past five seven years as a wood stove cuz it had forced air you know pipes are off the back and through the front of it blue air out was nice can you cook on the top but I finally bought a legit wood stove because here in Massachusetts I don't really know where you get cold anymore I know in the past my neighborhood had a lot of houses had cold in them my grandfather's house had cold but it's just staying around no more I don't think here

you buy coal to make coal got a longer explanation ? i'd like to see why i do make my own coal for activated charcoal. for my daughter i'll give her in pill form, i just crush my charcoal and swallow chunks you get a like 👍

Yup, best fuel for keeping warm...Ever!

All I run, I have had them all, talked around the world on the Magic Mobile- South Carolina21

They were a good idea, but had many problems. One-no power handling, too many places for water to get in, and the relay box. When they worked they were nice. Thanks for the video.

Good to see someone creating things. I found your channel, and hit the thumbs up, and am following. 21 South Carolina Old Radio Night

As I understand from your video, you can start with Bit coal (easy to light?) and after a while top it off with anthracite? Here in the Netherlands we have anthracite from Wales UK and Bit coal from Poland. Very expensive but I have an obsession with coal.

Old-school trick that my dad taught me: hold a match in front of the baro damper. If the flame sucks toward the flue, you're good to go. You can buy fire-brick pretty cheaply to replace your broken ones. If you take care of the fire every night, you shouldn't need wood to stoke up the fire. Keep a couple road flare on hand. If you get a chimney fire from the creosote catching, throw a flare into the chimney door. The flare will use up all the oxygen and put the chimney fire out. You get it.

First, I don't know. But I suspect you could shut the damper some. I guess your stack temperature should be a hint. You could check smoke and CO2. Maybe I expect too much from a basic stove.

I live in Pennsylvania and have always burned anthracite I have a stove exactly like yours and I use stove cold if it packs in too tight it will not breathe and burn correct I have had it burned for 5 to 6 months at a time without going out but you do need to bust up the clinkers once in awhile

I've always burned anthracite (NE PA...the stuff practically lays on the ground here - like $200-250/ton. Was $100-150 pre-2020, then the world went stupid). It's great to see someone who appreciates and understands coal. How often do you have to clean the furnace and chimney running bituminous? I'm good once a year in September/October before it runs every day. Also, sweet antenna! I'm a ham, but I'll mess around on 11m once in a while.

I was at Ft. McCoy, WI, back in 1987 for a short time. They still burned coal to heat the old barracks bldgs (I think most of it was built prior to WWII). You'd go outside and there was a thick yellow smog that hung in the air and it smelled foul (almost took your breath away), must of been the bituminous they were burning.

I only got 6 hours burns on bit.

You should try burning lignite. I live in Greece. This is what the power company uses to make electricity. I tried it once. Burns OK, but produces more ash and dirt than what you put in. Smells too.

I had a hand fired, thermostat controlled furnace which used anthracite stove coal. Started a fire in the fall and let it burn out the spring. I didn't have to fiddle with it much other than shovel out the ashes and in the coal in the morning and add a shovel or two in the evening. It was almost self regulating because when it was cold out the draft pull on the chimney was greater. In another house I had an auger fed boiler which used anthracite pea coal. It also had a coil for domestic hot water. The ashes fell into a bucket under the retort. No smoke or back drafts on either. No poking or clinkers either. The furnace could work without electricity but the hot water boiler required current for the auger and water pump.

I like the MACO antenna!!! Nice vid. Thanks

- Haha... enjoy that warm, efficient, affordable coal stove as long as you can before the liberal, woke, Democrat environmental police find it and shut you down... Spring is just around the corner - L

We always burnt bituminous here in southern West Virginia. My grandmother had the same warm morning you have. Great heat and alot less work than wood. I now at 49 burn wood because i cant afford the bag coal for primary heat. All you said about wood is very true,but i have pretty easy access to free wood,its just alot of work. Congrats on your stove.

I am 72 and grew up in PA. My job as the eldest child of parents who worked long hours, often at night, was to keep my younger siblings fed , safe and taken care of AND to cook, clean etc. Plus filling the coal furnace with shovels of coal in the basement and maintaining an even flow of heat. I also helped my father keep the furnace clean. Your video brings back those memories. We had iron floor vents that the hot air rise through and we positioned furniture far enough away to not burn but also to keep the little kids away to not get bad burns on those iron vents. We lived in a simpler time.

What a great antenna

It says in the owners manual not to do that? Coal burns much hotter, how dose it fare?

UPS has a habit of damage I sent a 2990 out for repair they ran over it with a truck

I heat with wood, but I'm really considering putting in a coal heater, just due to the convenience of being able to sleep through the night rather than getting up 2 to 3 times to feed the fire.

A different you tube video showed cleaning exact same engine motor/gearing using ultra sonic tank. I tried it and now it’s my favorite using the tank. Just keep windings and electrical out of solution.😊😊

Okay, you captured this with a cell phone. Suggestion when capturing video, always hold the camera horizontal. Every TV screen, monitor screen, computer screen, movie theater screen, are orientated horizontally. In videos where the camera is vertical, as yours, then played back on the aforementioned devices the left one-third, and right one-third of the screen is cut off. It causes the video appearing as a stick video, tall and narrow. We humans, maybe all lifeforms, view our surroundings considerably more horizontal than vertical. Holding a cellphone or camera vertically the video produced is similar to looking through a tight keyhole or wearing horse blinders. Also, a video captured vertically becomes spatially disorientating. A vertical video is not at all a pleasure to watch.

Anything under 2 with a barefoot radio is fine.

Look kind of like the PDL2 antennae.